Kevin Durant and Keatley reviewing images on setOn set with Kevin Durant at Milk Studios in LA.The ball grazed my ear every time, and yes I was terrifiedMan, I look so small next to KDThe incredible ladies at Production on 5th. Was I drinking champagne?Let me take a selfieKevin Durant selfie. Keatley with the assist!

Kevin Durant’s shoes!!!

It goes without saying, but this was a fun shoot. Set build at Milk Studios in LA, and working with NBA superstar Kevin Durant. Big thank you to KD, Roc Nation, Sparkling ICE, Javelin, and Production on 5th. Total team effort. Last year I also shot a print campaign for Sparkling ICE with Robinson Cano. This was the follow up shoot, plus I directed a few web interviews with KD which you can see above as well.

While I didn’t use my iPhone to make any of these member portraits or videos for BECU, it was my iPhone Portrait project that helped shape the direction of this ad campaign by DNA. It is incredibly gratifying to work on a project like this, when there is a close tie to something as personal as my iPhone Portraits. Exploring the human face through photography and video is the one thing I have never grown tired of. Every new person I photograph presents a new opportunity (or sometimes a challenge), and I am always learning from the experience of photographing people. Below are some of the portraits I made from the nearly 50 people I photographed for this project. Everyone is an actual BECU member. Working with “real” people is a lot of fun for me because they don’t come in with any expectations as to what they think I want them to do. And there are always some surprises, which I think makes the portraits all the more interesting.

If you were watching the summer Olympics this year, you may have seen these commercials, which I directed. The billboards, bus wraps, posters, etc. are all over Seattle, as well. Big thanks to BECU and DNA, especially Lianne Onart, Dave Echenoz, Molly Woodruff, and Dan Gross.

I always try to keep people on their toes and make things as fun as possible. To me, that means taking awkward pictures of the ACD Lianne and BECU member, Kiki.
My daughter, right as she discovered / I taught her, you can yell, “M&M’s” on set, and they will magically appear.”

Identity is an interesting thing. We dress and decorate ourselves to convey a message to others, communicating to them with intentionality or not “this is what I want you to think about who I am.” What is interesting about this, though, is that most people don’t interpret our message the way we intend. Our identity and the opinions of others are inextricably linked together, for better or worse. Our identity forms opinions. Others opinions mold and form our identity. Identity is something I have been thinking about a lot over the last several years as I try to understand more about myself, and how I view others. In 2015, I created a portrait series called Members Only, where I styled 13 people to look exactly the same. Once I finished that series, I wanted to explore multiple identities in a single person, and wondered what was the extent of the range of a single human face. In a portrait, visually, how much can one person change? With that, I give you Con Man.

Howard Cogitz is one of the most prolific American con men of the 20th century. His first known con was in 1958 while running a fake real estate development company in Florida. At best count, he walked away with over 3 million dollars from nearly 16 individuals and families.

In 1963 he spread out, with known ties to Las Vegas, New York, and San Francisco. It seems he may have primarily lived in Florida under many different aliases, which indicates he may have originally been from there. His main game was to create fake corporations in the real estate business and offer investment opportunities to people beginning to think about retirement. His work can be traced from 1958 to 1971 when all signs of him vanished. He was never caught or arrested, although there is record of him receiving a traffic ticket for speeding in Los Angeles during 1964 under the name Charles Barber.

Below are some behind the scenes pictures for those of you who like to see how things are made. A very big thank you to Jennifer Popochock, Alexis Steinman, Brian Kirk, Viktor Fejes, Duffy De Armas, my wife Nichelle, and Peter Hanson. Behind the scenes pictures by Peter Hanson. I feel like this is just the start of something pretty exciting.

As a youngster growing up in California, I always wanted to be a Hollywood dog trainer. Well, that didn’t work out so well. But I do still love dogs, and I love working with them, despite what WC Fields said, “Never work with children or animals.” Being the rebel I am, I decided to work with both children and animals on this new ad campaign for Seattle Humane with The Hilt agency. And why stop there! Let’s also add a super wild drag queen, and a family with three teenage girls while we are at it. You know, just to make things more interesting!

Seattle Humane is a wonderful organization and I sincerely hope these images make them a lot of money so they can save even more animal lives. And some human lives too…

Congrats to my friend Catherine Giudici on finding love on The Bachelor. It became official last night, so I thought I would share a fun outtake from our recent shoot together. Very excited for Catherine and Sean Lowe. Hopefully I can share more of the images in the near future. There are so many great shots!

Ryan Lewis in the house ya’ll. I recently posted one of my portraits of Ben Haggerty a.k.a. Macklemore, and now it’s time to share a portrait of his creative partner Ryan. They are in the middle of success that very few people ever experience, and this Saturday you can see them on SNL. Congrats guys!

I’m so thrilled with this portrait. I have wanted to shoot something with this type of feel for a long time, and it turned out so great. Big thanks to Gigantic Squid for the retouching.

It seems like forever ago now, but I actually played football in college until a shoulder injury sidelined my aspirations of reaching the NFL. I mostly played free safety, but I also moved to defensive end in my last season. Needless to say, photographing athletes is something I really enjoy, as it get’s me back out on the field to some extent.

Here is a quick snapshot I found from back in my college days. But back to Derrick Coleman, because that’s really what this is all about. Most of you have probably already seen the incredible Duracell commercial about his fight to get to the NFL, but if you haven’t or if you want to watch it again, here it is. It makes me emotional every time I see it. So good.

“What you know ‘bout rockin’ the wolf on your noggin
What you knowin’ about wearing a fur fox skin” – Macklemore

What a fun shoot! I had the chance to work with Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) and Ryan Lewis 2 days before their new album “The Heist” came out and they headed out on tour. It was an incredible day, and some amazing images resulted. This being my favorite image. I think… Ahh, I don’t know, there are so many I like. Yeah, this is my favorite. Big congrats to the guys on Thrift Shop going platinum, as well as the incredible success they are having in general. You guys are making Seattle proud for sure. If you haven’t already heard The Heist, you should definitly check it out. One of the best albums to come along in a while, and obviously the music story of the year. I’m a fan.

I’ll post more images from this shoot when I can in the near future hopefully. For now, I’ll leave you with this. Represent!